H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
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1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919)
“Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.”
Meditations on Death, Stanza 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 504.
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